Farragut State Park.
Dave, Jeni and I did some virgin powder off-trail snowshoeing. 🙂
Category: friends
New Years 10km run
Good turn out at Adlard’s party the last night of 2015 – about 32 people and 2 dogs.
New Years day 10am tradition. The hung over first run of the year.
For the first time I actually trained for this. It did me no good. I ran about the same as usual – 1 hour.
stop logging the Ghost watershed
I signed a Change.org page:
Petitioning Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Honourable and 2 others
Call for an immediate moratorium on logging in the Ghost Watershed.
Anna Glaser’s family has a vacation home in the Ghost. Spray Lake Sawmills wants to cut down as many trees as possible. Spray Lake Sawmills is the bad guy. 😦
Here’s Anna’s take on the situation – Ghost Stories
Here are Anna’s family and friends of the Ghost protesting.
John & Laura in Doha
After decades of threatening to come visit John & Laura in one of their exotic postings, I finally got to one.
John works for Shell Oil and has travelled the world for work. He, Laura and their kids have lived in a number of oil rich nations.
For the past few years they’ve been living in Qatar. I stayed one night at their home in the Shell Quipco Compound.
They drove me out into the desert to see one of the few tourist attractions I’d not yet visited, the Zubarah Fort. It’s a new world heritage site.
On the way home we tried a new Persian restaurant for lunch. Mixed tasty kabobs. Bread with dipping sauces. Fresh vegies.
Another night Laura made coconut shrimp.
I wish I could describe it … but all I remember was how much wine we drank. I passed out instantly after falling on the bed.
Oddly, it briefly rained in Doha. It had rained twice on my in Saudi. Seems I’m a rain maker.
John, Laura and I talked of the future. Hoping to meet up one day for a travel adventure.
Mike Sissons sculpture
visiting Mike Sissons in Madrid
I spent a few days catching up with my long time friend. Staying with his family.
Mike and I hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years.
Having lived and taught in many nations, Mike has settled down. An artist, they live not far from the Prado.
This kid – Mike’s newphew – has been thrashing me at various games over the weekend. 🙂
From Madrid I’ll travel southern Spain for a couple of weeks before flying out to Scotland October 18th.
Ron swimming with a stick
Pre-dawn start under the Lion’s Gate Bridge. He seemed to enjoy watching salmon leap out of the water right under his nose. 🙂
Spanish Banks, Vancouver
One of the great treats of the left coast City is a picnic on the beach.
Rocco and Maureen were visiting …
… so I showed up. 🙂
Sunday nights Spanish Banks drum circle.
Off-leash dogs are welcome here.
The best photos were taken by Rockin’ Ronnie.
farewell Carbondale, CO
Thanks Brion and Betsy for hosting. I had a great time hiking and biking out of your mountain town.
We met in Nepal 2013 trekking the Manaslu Circuit.
Since then they’ve added a new hiker to the family. 🙂
Rick McCharles 